The Two Graves

In the spring of 1942, Shaul Tchernichovsky, one of the greatest Hebrew poets, sat down and wrote a collection of seven ballads — the Ballads of Worms.

The Two graves

The fifth ballad in the series, written in late March in Tel Aviv, is named after a pair of graves located in what is now the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. A cemetery that miraculously survived the destruction of WWII against all odds.